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by abeppu 1y ago
... can you share with us a design for a beauty meter which objectively measures beauty? Since it's not a subjective characteristic, it should be possible to establish whether something is beautiful without a subject to perceive and ex
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I'm sure there are also federal buildings in St Louis; the justification from California works almost anywhere. But critically, the trial in which the legality of that action is considered is happening the week. Whether or not the acti
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... except this president federalized and deployed the national guard in California only earlier this summer, over the objections of the state's governor, so is that rule still a rule?
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> WASPs were unusual in creating systems that saw openness to outsiders as a virtue In your view, did that view of openness to outsiders as a virtue manifest in other ways? It's been a while since I had to study the period but the c
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> created a system so fair I think that's really begging one of the important questions here. _Is_ the system fair now? The system clearly wasn't originally fair (when elite schools excluded women, people of color, etc). They b
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by abeppu 1y ago
Isn't the point that _all_ admissions from a range of institutions over a period of years (decades?) were "holistic" admissions, and thus basically all post-college success stories are holistic success stories? Further, _it&
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But also because companies that produce web content wanted it to be seen by humans who would look at ads, not consumed by bots and synthesized with other info into a product owned by some other firm.
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> OpenAI conveniently forgot to include this comparison (ARC-AGI-2) in their livestream recital of benchmark progress, which left the livestream looking like marketing rather than science. Yeah but it was _supposed_ to be marketing, righ
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It's interesting that prior to the industrial revolution there are still some periods where it seems like innovations arrived relatively fast, and others where it was comparatively slow. E.g. a lot more entries are in the 500 BCE - 200
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I think 1. is still pretty bad. It's sounds like students are often obligated to use school-issued accounts for their own school work, and contents are searched and reviewed by the vendor's staff before either the student or the s
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Absolutely anger is sometimes justified. But people are also angry when e.g. someone cuts them off in traffic. The initial feeling of anger may not be appropriate. A cue to help you avoid reacting immediately from hostility isn't so mu
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I think there's a meaningful difference between a tool to remind oneself to take a beat before speaking vs being told what to say. For example, cues that help you avoid an impulsive reaction of anger I think is a step away from bein
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I want someone to try building a variant that just gives you timely cues about generally good mental health practices. Suggestions could be contextually based on a local-only app that listens to you and your environment, and delivered to a
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I think that's an unfair comparison insofar as a person speeding on the highway generally passes you by quickly and doesn't prevent others from using the highway. But a person who tries to camp out in the bathroom because it'
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I think the sad part is I think most people would be ok funding more public bathrooms if we had confidence that they would be used only as bathrooms ... but in the places that need them the most, people have the expectation that they will b
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by abeppu 1y ago
~60% of Americans can't handle a surprise expense of $1k. "A few" missed paychecks is generally going to be more than a $1k disruption. My understanding is lots of places have relatively little protections for tenants. Once y
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by abeppu 1y ago
From a study looking at cost-effectiveness of tafamidis: > Orphan drugs enjoy substantial pricing power because there are few or no therapeutic competitors. As a result, discounts off the list price, if any, tend to be small. In a recent
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by abeppu 1y ago
Nit: Is anyone else annoyed by the trend of people using block quote formatting to emphasize their own topic sentences rather than to quote from another source? In addition to being visually annoying, to me it highlights that the author hab
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by abeppu 1y ago
Nope, this isn't just an issue of percentages. I can't link to specific query results from the American Time Use Survey, but from this page [1], you can check "Avg hrs per day - Socializing and communicating", click &quo
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by abeppu 1y ago
I do also think that any such summary statistic can only show a small part of the picture. Of the time _not_ spent alone, how much is with a single other person as you look at different screens? Of time spent not alone and outside of the h
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by abeppu 1y ago
> I’ve been doing some of the same activities and going on some of the same hikes, bikes, runs, trails, and parks on and off for two decades. The popularity of these activities has exploded. Ok, interpreting "everything ... is in de
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by abeppu 1y ago
You're basically saying that people who aren't social mistakenly view the rest of the world as not social because of their specific experience, but doesn't that effect also cut the other way? You're seeing people being s
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I think the conceptually messed up part is, when such an award includes separate components for compensatory damages and punitive damages, the plaintiff receives the punitive damages even if they're part of a much broader class that wa
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Oh I'm acutely aware that my taxes have been subsidizing people in red states that call me a slur. But it's pretty messed up that presently the places that _were_ willing to pay for these things are deprived of the benefits. If in
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As with many things, I wonder if we should start unbundling services the federal government provides. If many states like public broadcasting, what if a pool of states were to opt-in to continuing to fund it (and decide whether to limit it
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by abeppu 1y ago
But the thing in the study cited in the post was putting people alone in a room for the same task with the same time limit -- _not_ take home assignments. What if this is just a (labor-saving) tweak to on-site live coding interviews. You&#x
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... it can't be that rare or it wouldn't be a common combination right? Like, you'd be rare if you wanted black licorice on pizza, and you'd know you're rare b/c you wouldn't find opportunities to order it
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by abeppu 1y ago
But in high level competition people don't use handicaps right? But I think handicaps are also about your individual skill level based on your past performance relative to par on different courses right? (I'm not a golfer). I&#x27
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In college sometimes asking the right question in class or in a discussion section led by a graduate student or in a study group would help me understand something. Sometimes comments from a grader on a paper would point out something I had
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Absolutely lots of factors actually influence competitive advantage and it's arbitrary which ones we decide to use to group competitors! I think a helpful reframing is to note that some sports do segregate by factors other than sex, ge

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